Top "Automation" questions

Automation is the process of having a computer do a repetitive task or a task that requires great precision or multiple steps, without requiring human intervention.

Automatically update Windows fully

I'm working on a project where the goal is to be able to update a windows computer 100%. That means a …

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Disposing of Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application

(Somewhat of a follow on from the post (which remains unanswered): https://stackoverflow.com/q/6197829/314661) Using the following code Application …

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How do you automate Javascript minification for your Java web applications?

I'm interested in hearing how you prefer to automate Javascript minification for your Java web apps. Here are a few …

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Autoit Recorder not available

From here I downloaded: SciTE4AutoIt3.exe SciTE.exe But AutoIt Recorder is not in the tools menu. Also tried …

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Python script - connect to SSH and run command

I already know there are ssh modules for Python, that's not for what I'm looking for. What I want to …

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Using conditional statements inside 'expect'

I need to automate logging into a TELNET session using expect, but I need to take care of multiple passwords …

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headless internet browser?

I would like to do the following. Log into a website, click a couple of specific links, then click a …

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How can you automatically remove trailing whitespace in vim

I am getting 'trailing whitespace' errors trying to commit some files in git. I want to remove these trailing whitespace …

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VBA interaction with internet explorer

The macro I am building takes names from an Excel spreadsheet, opens Internet Explorer, and searches the online directory. After …

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How to ignore particular scenario in cucumber?

I am using cucumber to feed scenario and java as a language. I need to ignore particular scenario, while running …

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